A woman who made no contact with anybody for several days was found half-eaten by her pet pugs after dying at home. Relatives ...

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Adriana Neagoe, 34, had not been heard from for five days before police made the harrowing discovery at her home near ...

SINGAPORE – The bird, barely the size of a human palm, struggled in the mesh net hanging between two wooden poles on Pulau Ubin, the biodiversity haven located off Singapore’s eastern coast.

The idea of life continuing on Earth without humans has a way of catching our attention. Our species has spread across land and sea, altering the planet in countless ways. Still, Earth’s history shows ...

A new human species, Homo juluensis, has been proposed based on fossils from eastern Asia, dating back 300,000 to 50,000 years ago, possibly including the Denisovans. This research uses a novel method ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Bacteria are in, around and all over us. They thrive in almost every corner of the planet, from deep-sea hydrothermal vents to high ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in basic science. The five winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics shared a common thread: AI. Indeed, many scientists ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 million years ago, giving birth to twins was the norm. When you purchase ...

Intelligent and adaptive behavior can be observed among animals. Chimpanzees, for example, learn to use tools to mine termites and pass this skill on to their offspring. Similarly, humpback whales ...

Ants and humans competed in navigating a maze with a large load. While humans outperformed individually, ant groups excelled collectively, showing strategic coordination and persistence. The study ...

Let’s face it: toenails aren’t exactly the stars of the human body. They’re kind of like the background dancers in a music video—rarely in the spotlight, but you’d miss them if they ...